A second ceremony for students receiving doctoral and master's degrees will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the coliseum. The speaker for graduate commencement will be Julian M. Earls, director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

Cummings, who holds undergraduate and law degrees from UGA, was named interim chancellor in August. She is the first woman and the first person of color to lead Georgia's university system, composed of 35 public colleges and universities around the state.